Title: Huber, Lewis

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion., Part 2, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1879), 49.

Keywords:diarrhœa and dysenteryreports and extracts from reports relating to diarrhœa and dysenterytreatment with nitrate of silverdiarrhœa treated with injections of nitrate of silver at the Judiciary Square hospital, Washington, D. C., during the, summer of 1863diarrhœa of three weeks' standing

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e566

TEI/XML: med.d1e566.xml


Case entered in the book is signed by Assistant Surgeon A. Hartsuff, U. S. A., temporarily acting as surgeon in charge,⃰ by whom it is understood the majority if not all the cases were treated. To the account of each case as recorded in the case-book the subsequent history of the patient, whenever it has been possible to obtain it, is appended. ⃰In the absence of Assistant Surgeon E. J. Marsh, U. S. A.


CASE 15.—Private Lewis Huber, company G, 179th Pennsylvania volunteers; admitted July 14, 1863. Diarrhœa of three weeks' standing; four to eight thin, colorless passages daily. Ordered perfect rest, astringents, and milk diet, without benefit. July 16th: Ordered the following: ℞. Nitrate of silver ten grains, laudanum twenty-five drops, water one ounce. Use as an enema. This was retained half an hour, after which the patient had but one passage daily, and was returned to duty cured July 20th.